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Install Krita – Ms Paint Alternative For Linux Ubuntu

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

How to Install Krita 4.2.5 in Ubuntu; Krita is a powerful MS Paint alternative for Linux Ubuntu; Windows Paint alternative for Linux Systems.

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

Krita 4.2.5

Announcing the release of Krita 4.2.5, the team wrote: “We found that Krita 4.2.4 still had a bug handling shortcuts when certain tools were active. We’ve worked hard to fix that bug as quickly as possible, and as a consequence, we’re releasing Krita 4.2.5 today. Everyone is urged to update to this new release.”

Les_Miserables_By_Tago : Krita Gallery

Bugs Fixed

  • Fix an assert in the transform tool when working with a tablet and touch
  • Fix continued transformation in the transform tool
  • Fix updates in the transform tool
  • Show the publication time in the welcome page news ticker in the user’s preferred short date/time format
  • Fix using the tangent-normal brush when the canvas is rotated or mirrored (BUG:404408)
  • Make it possible again to create new palettes and save them in the resource folder, instead of the current document (BUG:410137)
  • Make Krita not gobble up all available memory when loading a JPG file with specific metadata (BUG:410242)
  • Constrain assistant editors to the viewport, so they can always be manipulated
  • Make sure Krita stores changes to brush presets in the current session by default (BUG:410463)
  • Remove an assert that could be triggered when opening the first image in a session
  • Update the version of the default input settings profile, so the rotate/zoom action will be activated even if the user already had a local kritadefault.profile file
  • Fix a crash on using the move tool while the image is being opened (BUG:398968)
  • Make sure the painting tools don’t block anymore (BUG:409968,408826,409275)
  • Make the shortcut handling system more tolerant when shortcuts overlap (BUG:409968)
  • Fix a crash in the transform tool
  • Make the transform tool and the move tool more responsive

Krita 4.2.0 – A Major Stable Release

  1. HDR Display support – It’s now possible to view your HDR image in HDR, on supported hardware. You can now not only save your HDR image in .kra or OpenEXR files, but also extended PNG. With the right version of FFMPEG you can even create animations in HDR
  2. Improved brush speed performance with vectorization and lock-free programming.
  3. A new color gamut docker where you can limit your colors shown. New contributor Anna Medonosova has added this. This feature is available with the artistic color selector and the circle advanced color docker displays. Note: The default triangle selector doesn’t allow this feature.
  4. More options and cleaned up Artistic Color Selector. There is now a “continuous mode” (infinity symbol) that allows you to remove the stepping with certain attributes. Additional options for new gamut masking. Anna Medonosova has added this great feature.
  5. A news widget has been added to the startup screen that allows Krita to fetch the latest news coming from krita.org. Now, if there’s something interesting, like a new release, you’ll be in the front row! Clicking on a news item will take you to the web page.
  6. Options to control how your backups are done. You can even control if you want your backup files to be stored in a different location. These settings are found in the “Configure Krita” main menu under the General section.
  7. Improved Color Palette Docker. It is more stable as well as some of the following changes:
    * Instead of an entry-based docker, a rows and column based docker.
    * It can hold empty entries, which is useful for organizing.
    * Stable drag and dropping of colors.
    * Easy adding in entries by clicking them in the docker.
    * Right-clicking removes an entry.
    * Palettes can be put into the KRA file.
    * You can press the folder icon to open a palette editing dialog where you can set a palette to be stored in the document or resource-folder.

Download – Krita – Linux

Install Krita 4.2.5

Run the following commands in terminal to install Krita 4.2.5 on Linux Ubuntu Systems via Kirtalime PPA:

sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita

Once installed, open Krita 4.2.5 from Ubuntu Dash